Intermittent claw type film driving device



Sept 6, 149. A. HEURTIER INTERMITTENT CLAW TYPE FILM DRIVING DEVICE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed June 5, 1947 3 j 2 T a 7 5 2 INVEN TOR. @4175,

Patented Sept. 6, 1949 INTERMITTENT CLAW TYPE FILM DRIVING DEVICE Antoine Heurtier, Saint-Etienne, France Application June 5, 1947, Serial No. 752,767 In France July 18, 1944 Section 1, Public Law 690, August s, 1946 Patent expires July 18, 1964 '7 Claims.

1 My invention relates to devices for feedm the films in cinematographic apparatus and has for its object an improved construction of such de- VICBS.

In accordance with my invention the improved feeding device comprises a claw-shaped member adapted to engage the film perforations and to drive the same, said claw member being provided with an opening in which there is disposed a rotating cam acting on two sides of the opening to oscillate the said claw member in a parallel and in a perpendicular direction with respect to the film, the said member being kept in engagement with the cam by a spring-loaded brush carried by the member and acting on the periphery of a disc rigid with the cam, and the said member being slidably engaged with a finger forming a fixed oscillation centre.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a front view of the unit.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the unit on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1.

Figs. 3, 4 and 5 show three successive and different positions occupied by the claw-shaped member in driving the film.

Fig. 6 is a diagrammatic view showing the claw-shaped member after the displacement of the adjustable abutment.

As shown, my novel feeding device having variable and regulatable movement comprises essentially a casing I of the cinematographic apparatus in which is journaled a drive shaft carrying a worm 2 which drives a toothed wheel 3 integral with a shaft 4 having at its upper end a plate 5. Shaft 4 is supported at its two ends in ball bearings 6 located in a boss in the casing l.

Plate 5 has a driving pin I which engages in a hole in a shoe 8 sliding in a guide 8' which is integral with a shaft 9 supported by ball bearings I and II in the members I2 and I3 supported by the casing I. At its central portion shaft 9 carries a heart-shaped cam I4 the periphery of which bears against the inner specially shaped cage of the claw-shaped member [5.

This heart-shaped cam I4 is integral with an eccentric disc l6 for the purpose of reducing the travel of a push rod H which bears on this eccentric disc I6 and is movable in a guide I8 clamped at I9 at the end of an arm I of the claw-shaped member I5. The guide I8 passes through an opening provided therefor in the wall of housing I2. A coil spring 20 ensures a permanent pressure of the push rod I'I against the eccentric disc IB and consequently always maintains contact of the inner cage of the clawshaped member I5 against the heart-shaped cam l4. The claw-shaped member I5 is displaced in accordance with the shape of the heart-shaped camll l and member I5 bearing simply or sliding on the adjustable abutment 2| which is located at the rounded end of a lever 22 secured by the bolt 23 to an arm of a disc 24 pivotally retained between the shoulder 25 of the member 52 and a detachable ring 25a secured on member 12, a spring 2'! connecting the arm of the fixed disc 24 to the casing I.

It will be understood that by changing the position of this adjustable abutment 2| there is obtained a different angular travel of the clawshaped member I5, and consequently a different feeding action of the film x. This difference in travel is in fact obtained by moving the adjustable abutment nearer to or further from the shaft 9 of the cam (as illustrated in Fig. 6).

A milled adjusting screw 26 carried by the casing I serves as an abutment for regulating the lever 22, thus permitting the placing of the film in the projection frame.

The above arrangement, as indicated, produces different actions:

1. Driving of the claw-shaped member I5 by an independent plate 5 which is eccentric in relation to the shaft 9 which latter carries the cam I4 operating the claw-shaped member I 5; a speed of rotation is then transmitted which will be variable, according to the reciprocal eccentricity of shafts 4 and 9 which produces a special feed of the film.

2. The shaft 9 which carries the cam l4 rotates in variable time being followed by the clawshaped member I5 which according to the shape of the cam M will then occupy successive positions which will permit of displacing it, feeding the film a: more rapidly during the passage from one image to the other which affords the possibility:

(a) Of engaging in the perforations of the film and of displacing it in the direction of the arrow '0.

(2)) Of releasing it rapidly without damaging the film.

(0) Of effecting precise adjustment of the travel of the claw-shaped member I5 by regulation of the abutment 2! of the claw-shaped memher.

The guide for the film x and the other parts not described take the usual form.

I claim:

1. A film feeding device for cinematographic apparatus and the like, comprising an oscillatable member having claws to engage successive film perforations and said member being formed with a first opening having two sides at an angle to each other and with a second opening disposed at the end opposite from said claws with respect to said first opening, said second opening being of elongated form with its longitudinal axis sub stantially directed towards said claws; a cam adapted for rotation in said first ripening; a retatable shaft to carry said cam; means to rotate said shaft; a circular disc eccentric'ally carried; by said shaft adjacent the cam; means elastically carried by said member and adapted to press en said disc to maintain said cam in permanent centact with the said sides of saidv first opening t6 substantially oscillate said member in suecessien in a direction parallel to the portion of film engaged by said claws and. in a direction perpendicular to said portion; and a fixed finger slidably engaged in said second opening to form a guide for saidmernber. g

2. In a feeding device as claimed in claim 1, said fixed finger being adjustable in a direction substantially parallel to the portion of film en-' gaged by said claws.

3. In a feeding device as claimed in claim 1 said disc being in eccentric relation to said shaft with the eccentricity substantially disposed in registration with the eccentriciin of said cam.

4. In a feeding device as claimed in claim 1, said first opening being of substantially square shape with one side substantially parallel to the portion of the film engaged by said claws, and said cam bein in permanent contact only with the side of said first opening nearest to said new and with one of the sides adjacent thereto.

5. A film feeding device for cinematographic apparatus and the like, comprising an oscillat'able member having claws to engage successive film perforations and said member being formed with a first opening having two sides at an angle to each other and with a second opening disposed opposite said claws with respect to said first opening, said second opening being of elongated form with its longitudinal axis substantially directed towards said claws; a cam adapted for rotation in said first opening; a rotatable shaft to carry said cam; means to rotate said shaft; a disc carried by said shaft; means elastically carried by said member and adapted to press on said disc to maintain said cam i permanent contact with the said sides of said first opening to substantially 4 oscillate said member in succession in a direction parallel to the portion of film engaged by said claws and in a direction perpendicular to said portion; a finger slidably engaged in said second opening to form a guide for said member; an arm pivoted co-axially to said shaft; a second arm secured at the free end of said first arm, said second arm carrying said finger; an abutment for said second arm; and spring means to press said second arm against said abutment.

6. In a feeding device as claimed in claim 5, said abutment being in the form of an adjustable screw.

'7. A film feeding device for cinematographic apparatus comprising an oscillatable member having claws to engage successive film perforations, and said member being formed with a first opening having two sides at an angle to each other and with a second opening disposed opposite said claws with respect to said first opening, said second opening being of elongated form with its longitudinal axis substantially directed towards said claws; a cam adapted for rotation in said first opening; a rotatable shaft to carry said cam;

' means to rotate said shaft; a disc eccentrically carried by said shaft; a tubular guide carried by said oscillatable member in substantially radial relation to said shaft and substantially in the mean transverse plane of said disc; a brush s1idable in said guide and adapted to bear on the periphery of said disc; spring means to urge said brushagainst said disc to maintain said cam in ermanent contact with the said sides of said first openin to substantially oscillate said member in succession in a direction parallel to the portion of film engaged by said claws and in a direction perpendicular to said portion; and a fixed finger slidably engaged in said second opening to form a guide for said member.

ANTOINE HEURTIER.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,046,572 Merta July '7, 1936 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 501,188 Great Britain Feb. 22, 1939 

